CBSE Class 8 English Sample Paper Set 2

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Section – A

(Comprehension)

I. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: (12 marks)

1. When Frank and I stepped through the post office doors, there was a crowd gathered, gazing at the new fixture on the wall. I had to get closer, and that was where being a girl that's scrawnier than a wire fence came in handy. Fortunately, Frank, my twin of eleven years, was just the same.

2. "Come on." I said, grabbing his hand, and we slid through the cracks between people until we got to the front.

3. Finally, I got a good look. It was fixed to the plaster next to the postmaster's window, the place of honour usually reserved for the Wanted posters. Beady-eyed Roger Smith, the bank robber, still hung there, but even he had been pushed aside for something more important.

4. A telephone. The first one in town. The thought of talking into that box — of making my voice sail through wires in the sky — it took over my brain.

5. "Frank," I whispered. "I have to use that telephone."

6. "Liza — " he began, but I cut him off. We two thought so much alike, I had Frank's questions answered before he even asked.

7. "You're right," I said. "It costs five cents and I don't have it. But look." I pulled him over to the window of Paulson's Variety Store. "You see those?" I pointed to a handful of shimmery rocks spread on black velvet. Some were a shiny gray, others yellow as cheese. Frank's eyebrows screwed up and I could tell he wasn't following.

8. "If I found one of those, I bet they'd pay me for it." I explained.

9. With a shake of his head, Frank said. "But Liza — "

10. I held up a hand — he couldn't tell me anything I didn't already know. "I've got that figured, too. I'll bet we could find some in the mine."

11. We spent half the morning on the dusty road to the mine. Ma packed a lunch, but said she couldn't understand walking all that way for rocks. She thought we were off to search the dry river bed, and I didn't correct her.

12. We reached the old mine around noon. Once my eyes got used to the dim light, I gazed around, hoping to see shimmery rocks littering the floor, but dust was all I saw.

13. Just then, we heard voices coming closer: "Roger, hold it higher." Two men stepped through a gap in the far wall. One of them was Roger Smith, the bank robber.

14. "Hey!" The other man pointed at us, then dropped his saddlebags and ran for us.

15. I tried to run, too, but met up with Frank's backside.

16. "That's what you get if you go poking your noses in bad places." Caleb said, as he tied our hands behind us. "

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